02 July 2008 - If you are working flat out and never seem to make headway, are you making the best use of the technology on your desk? Could you work more efficiently or even work whilst on the move?
Increasingly we hear about work life balance. We all know someone who has gone off sick with stress and companies are awash with complaints about long working hours. What happened to technology making our lives easier and quicker?
I bet that if I asked you to clear your desk of all outstanding tasks, it would not only take you all day and all night, but probably weeks. Even though we are now 23% more productive than we were 10 years ago*, the pressure of our workload never seems to decrease, meaning that we get less quality time doing the things we enjoy.
This is why many businesses are now looking at how their staff members can work more efficiently. Mobile working is not something from the space age any more. Every day you call businesses and increasingly these people are working at home wirelessly connected to their company.
This is real life working practice for many busy professionals who prefer to work around their life rather than live around their work. So what difference would it make to your business if your team worked remotely, but you could still contact them at the end of a keyboard, webcam or phone.
People now choose to receive their emails when working from home either on their laptops or mobile phones; they choose to deal with issues as they arrive rather than stack them up for when they are next in the office. How would you choose to work in an ideal world?
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